The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate!

A closed heart opens no mind.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.